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“Fitness has Nothing to Do with Fatness”: Teen Athletes Speak Out about Body Positivity

If the older generations looked to magazines like Vogue and Cosmopolitan to see prevailing beauty standards, teens today have a guide to the model body, how to (unhealthily) achieve it, and their ... Continue Reading

CrossFit Inc. Announces Regional Affiliate Representatives in the United States

CrossFit Inc. will be rolling out affiliate representatives in the United States in the upcoming weeks. The purpose of creating a regional representative system is to “facilitate communication ... Continue Reading

Let the “Madness” Begin! Mayhem Madness Opens Up Registration and Releases Workouts for Qualifier

On Wednesday, registration for the Mayhem Madness online qualifier went live and the five workouts that will test potential qualifiers for the exclusive team competition were also released. The qualifier ... Continue Reading

NCFIT Lança uma Potencial Opção para Donos de Box

Editor’s Note: This story was translated to Portuguese by Axel Gouveia from the original English version, which you can read here. Depois de uma agitada semana que acabou com a resignação e ... Continue Reading

Kelly Valdez Uses Firefighting and CrossFit Skills to Become West Region Titan

***SPOILERS AHEAD*** The fifth episode of The Titan Games featured the start of the West Regional competition as six men and six women face-off against Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson’s handpicked Titans for ... Continue Reading

Rogue Raises The Bar (Again)

Live production media is very much an iceberg scenario -- what you actually see on your computer screen, or television is only the very tip of the hundreds, if not thousands of moving pieces and processes ... Continue Reading

Developing Story: More Athletes Boycott The Games, Demand Ownership Change

A growing coalition of CrossFit Games athletes and some of the biggest names in the sport have spoken up and have made their stance clear: They’re out of the Games, until more change is made. Katrin ... Continue Reading

Rogue Invitational Gathers Top Athletes for Online Competition

It’s been just over three months since CrossFit fans were able to watch top athletes compete in an official competition. This weekend, June 13-14, Rogue puts an end to the competition drought caused by the ... Continue Reading

Davidsdottir Not Satisfied with CrossFit Change

Without directly referring to newly installed CEO Dave Castro by name, two-time CrossFit Games champion Katrin Davidsdottir said “I am disappointed, to say the least, with the solution that was provided ... Continue Reading

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CrossFit HQ: “We Disappointed You”

Around the time they published a statement on Greg Glassman's retirement as CEO, CrossFit.com also published a letter titled, "Why Didn’t CrossFit Just Say Something?" In the lengthy direct address to ... Continue Reading

Affiliate Owners Split on Disaffiliation

We reported on Sunday that more than 100 CrossFit affiliates and counting (Editor’s note: that number has exceeded 1000 now) have decided to disaffiliate from CrossFit after founder and CEO Greg ... Continue Reading

Cutting Ties: Brands, Sponsors and Personalities Disassociate Themselves From CrossFit

The fallout from CrossFit founder and CEO Greg Glassman’s comments and actions continued with companies, brands, sponsors, and media personalities condemning, admonishing and cutting their ties to his ... Continue Reading

Sanctional Organizers Step Away from CrossFit Inc.

The past 24 hours have witnessed a massive movement from within the CrossFit community, as athletes, brands and local affiliate owners have sought to distance themselves from CrossFit Inc. in the wake of ... Continue Reading

“I can no longer be a part of that”: CrossFit Games Athletes Abandon Brand Under CEO Greg Glassman

As a surge of global CrossFit affiliates, businesses and sponsors distance themselves from the brand, the sport’s elite athletes have also condemned the comments of CrossFit founder and CEO Greg Glassman. ... Continue Reading

“I’m out”, Chandler Smith and Noah Ohlsen Decline Games Invite

With the chances of the 2020 CrossFit Games actually occurring in limbo, it was dealt yet another blow as two of the sport’s biggest stars announced that they would decline their Games invitation in the ... Continue Reading

Content Creators Join Forces For Charity

A heavy, emotion-filled week was capped off Friday by a sliver of good news as a collective of prominent content creators in the CrossFit community announced a charitable fundraiser. The fundraiser, which ... Continue Reading

Analysis: Making the Jump from the Teen to Individual Division

Back in 2015 when the CrossFit Games debuted the teen division, it seemed that it could create a direct line to the Individual division, cultivating prodigies and an avid fanbase. However, six years after ... Continue Reading

O Retorno da Kristin Holte

Editor’s Note: This story was translated to Portuguese by Axel Gouveia from the original English version, which you can read here. A segunda mulher mais condicionada do mundo em 2019 voltou às ... Continue Reading

Colorado Gym Owners Go the Extra 26.2 Miles Amidst a Global Pandemic

When Erica Erickson walked through the doors of Widespread CrossFit in Broomfield, CO two years ago, she was out of shape, suffering from poor sleep, and her stress level was “out of control,” she ... Continue Reading

Calling All Masters Athletes: This Survey is Your Ticket to Compete this Summer

The Masters Fitness Collective Championship is making huge strides in organizing an in-person, invite-only elite masters competition this summer. The event is set to take place August 20-23 in Fort Wayne, ... Continue Reading

Kristin Holte Returns

  June 2 POWERED BY Good morning and welcome to the Morning Chalk Up. The second Fittest Woman on Earth returned to live competition over the weekend; learn how Kristin Holte has ... Continue Reading

Kristin Holte Returns

The second fittest woman on earth from 2019 officially returned to the competition floor this past Saturday, as Norway’s Kristin Holte took the top overall spot at the ATA Games 2020 in what was also the ... Continue Reading

Prevost and Ilin Take the DCC2020 Online Challenge Lead after Event Two

The second event of the Dubai CrossFit Championship Online Challenge continued its theme of testing the physical and mental fortitude of all its participants. The top finishers of event two in each of the ... Continue Reading

Sanctional Cancelation Tally Now Eleven, Reykjavik CrossFit Championship to Return in 2021

The Reykjavik CrossFit Championship alerted athletes via Instagram on Monday, that its SAnctioned event was officially canceled for the 2019-2020 season. It was originally scheduled to take place in ... Continue Reading

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